Animal-poke.



No. 728,853- PATBNTED MAY 26, 1903.

w. s. BROWN. ANIMAL POKB.

APPLiOATION TILED JULY 20, 1900.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 26, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WVI LLIAM STEWART BROWN, OF WICHITA, KANSAS.

ANlMAL- POK E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,853, dated May 26, 1 903. 4 Application filed July 20, 1900. Serial No. 24,346. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM STEWART BROWN, a citizen of the United States, resid ing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breachy-Animal Pokes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in animal-pokes. This class of. inventions has heretofore been impractical. First, the animal was liable to hang itself in the wire; second, they were dangerous to the herd which said animal associates with.

My invention provides a poke that is simple, cheap, durable, and easy ofconstruction. The construction thereof is such as to avoid If the animal wearing one of myimproved pokes should make afrantic dash through a herd of stock, said poke could not laoerate or otherwise injure said stock. -I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View in perspective of my poke. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of Fig. 3 is also an enlarged sectional view with two-point barb attached thereto. barb detached.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Myimproved poke is constructed of four bars of flat steel, preferably about threefourths of an inch wide, with barbs attached thereto. Said bars are numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, and are riveted together at a a a Said bars are then bent so that when pivotally secured together with bolts 5 they form an ellipse. Bars 1 and 3 are provided with hooks B B, provided at their ends with eyelets which form safeguards for the ends of said hooks. The lower end of bar 4 terminates with a barb (I about an inch long, and a similar barb'is attached to bars 3 and 4 with rivet a. i

Fig. 4 is a two-point barb, with points F spread about two inches apart, preferably Fig. 4 is a two-point made of flat iron and about three inches long, one end of said barb being given a twist and pivotally secured to bars 1 and 2 at right angles to said bars with rivet G, Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that if barb F, Fig. 4, should get hooked over a wire and the animal should pull back said barb should turn up and release said wire; otherwise serious results would follow. After releasing said wire said barb will then drop down to its normal position, and shoulder J will come in contact with bar 2 and prevent said barb from falling down and continually pricking the animal in the top of the neck.

Bars 3 and 4 are provided with a series of holes H, Fig. 2." Said holes are for the purpose of adjusting said poke to diiferent-sized necks; butso many holes insaid bars weakens them, thus making them easily bent. This is provided for by curving the ends of bars 1 and 2 around bars 3 and 4, as shown at t, Fig. 1, so as to pass across in front of bars 3 and 4, then pass back at right angles outside of said bars 3 and .4. Said curves prevent the top section of said poke from falling down over the animals head while grazing and support bars 3 and 4 against any side pressure. Now it will be seen that if an animal is provided with one of my improved pokes and the top section of said poke comesin contact with an obstruction said section will fold back and barb F will prick the animal in the neck. If the lower section of said poke encounters an obstruction, barbs d and 6 come in contact with the breasts. If said poke is forced against the fence at an angle of, say, fortyfive degrees, the construction of joints shown, Fig. 3, is such that it will not be impaired, and one of said barbs F, Fig. 1, would prick the animals neck, whereas if only one barb were used it would pass down the side of the neck and lose its desired effect.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is 1. An animal-poke comprising a yoke, a bar projecting upwardly therefrom, and a barb pivoted to said bar and provided with a body portion of the barb and adapted to onshoulder to engage the same to limit the gage said bar.

movement of said barb.

2. An animal-poke comprising a yoke, a bar projecting upwardly therefrom, a barb WILLIAM STEWART BROWN pivoted to said bar and having two fingers Witnesses: disposed at an angle to its body portion and a shoulder at the juncture of said fingers and C. S. CALDWELL, GEO. T. JONES. 

